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Bookslut has a hilarious review of the various covers that have graced the Ursula K. LeGuin novel The Dispossessed.

This is the "Perennial Classics trade paperback"—which depicts, basically, Nevada. This is the edition that you will be assigned to buy if you ever take a class in "Myths of Dystopia/Utopia," since the text inside has nice fat borders with lots of room for scribbled notations. Plus it has the word "classic" on the cover in muted off-white text, so no one will be disrespecting you at the campus coffee shop and calling you Luke Skywalker and making Wookie noises.

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"Naturally, naturally," agreed Magnus Ridolph. "However, let us view the matter from a different aspect. Let us momentarily forget that we are friends, neighbors, almost business associates, each acting only through motives of the highest integrity. Let us assume that we are strangers, unmoral, predatory."

Blantham blew out his cheeks, eyed Magnus Ridolph doubtfully. "Far-fetched, of course. But go on."

(Jack Vance, The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph)

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A profile of author Alex Irvine.

"What gets me about science fiction and all genre literature," he said in a recent coffee shop interview, "is that nobody has to work for a living. That drives me nuts...I want to write stories about people who work for a living."

Hmmm...I guess he hasn't read Allen Steele, Travis Taylor, Alastair Reynolds, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ben Bova, Robert A. Heinlein, Fred Pohl, Arthur C. Clarke, Tim Powers, Neil Gaiman, C.M. Kornbluth, William Gibson, Michael Flynn, Samuel R. Delany, Joe Haldeman and many others. They all have written stories about people who work for a living. Granted, their jobs might not be what we do here and now, but you'll find plenty of "grunts" in the tales of these and others.

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...are maybe better left forgotten. Presenting Star Maidens! I actually caught a few episodes of this on US television way back when.

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Continuing his Heinlein Centennial-related articles, Dwayne A. Day (writing at The Space Review) looks at Project Moonbase. An ultra-low-budget effort, it was essentially an expanded television show. The amount of involvement that Heinlein had has been debated over the years, but you can see many of his touches: the shuttle rockets, an atom-bomb armed space station, and more.

It's cheap, it's pulp, it's black-and-white, but like Creation of the Humanoids, it has it's moments. Get it on DVD!

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Over at SF Signal, the management threw down the challenge to name three books that you've read and liked and that others probably have missed. Given my collection, I had many choices. As with many of these "meme"-like challenges, the problem was not so much finding choices but restricting them. Here are my choices. I figured that if I took the time to construct the comment there, I ought to be able to use it as a posting here! more...

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